Ugliness in architecture in the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus: Subtopia between the 1950s and the 1970s
Abstract The article examines the reorientations of the appreciation of ugliness within different national contexts in a comparative and relational frame, juxtaposing the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus. It also explores the ways in which the transformation of the urban fabric and...
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| description | Abstract The article examines the reorientations of the appreciation of ugliness within different national contexts in a comparative and relational frame, juxtaposing the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus. It also explores the ways in which the transformation of the urban fabric and the effect of suburbanization were perceived in the aforementioned national contexts. Special attention is paid to the production and dissemination of how the city’s uglification was conceptualized between the 1950s and 1970s. Pivotal for the issues that this article addresses are Ian Nairn’s Outrage: On the Disfigurement of Town and Countryside, Robin Boyd’s The Australian Ugliness, Donald Gazzard’s Australian Outrage: The Decay of a Visual Environment, and the way the phenomenon of urban expansion is treated in these books in comparison with other books from the four national contexts under study, such as Ludovico Quaroni’s La torre di Babele and Reyner Banham’s The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?. Particular emphasis is placed on Boyd’s articles in The Architectural Review between 1951 and 1970. At the core of the article is the analysis of the debates around ugliness between the 1950s and 1970s within the British, Italian, American and Australian contexts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fb9582ff6fb54414bd610764c52397602022-12-22T00:19:00ZengSpringerOpenCity, Territory and Architecture2195-27012022-06-019112110.1186/s40410-022-00152-7Ugliness in architecture in the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus: Subtopia between the 1950s and the 1970sMarianna Charitonidou0Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (GTA), Department of Architecture, ETH ZürichAbstract The article examines the reorientations of the appreciation of ugliness within different national contexts in a comparative and relational frame, juxtaposing the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus. It also explores the ways in which the transformation of the urban fabric and the effect of suburbanization were perceived in the aforementioned national contexts. Special attention is paid to the production and dissemination of how the city’s uglification was conceptualized between the 1950s and 1970s. Pivotal for the issues that this article addresses are Ian Nairn’s Outrage: On the Disfigurement of Town and Countryside, Robin Boyd’s The Australian Ugliness, Donald Gazzard’s Australian Outrage: The Decay of a Visual Environment, and the way the phenomenon of urban expansion is treated in these books in comparison with other books from the four national contexts under study, such as Ludovico Quaroni’s La torre di Babele and Reyner Banham’s The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?. Particular emphasis is placed on Boyd’s articles in The Architectural Review between 1951 and 1970. At the core of the article is the analysis of the debates around ugliness between the 1950s and 1970s within the British, Italian, American and Australian contexts.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40410-022-00152-7SubtopiaFeaturismAustericaArboraphobiaOutrageugliness |
| spellingShingle | Marianna Charitonidou Ugliness in architecture in the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus: Subtopia between the 1950s and the 1970s City, Territory and Architecture Subtopia Featurism Austerica Arboraphobia Outrage ugliness |
| title | Ugliness in architecture in the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus: Subtopia between the 1950s and the 1970s |
| title_full | Ugliness in architecture in the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus: Subtopia between the 1950s and the 1970s |
| title_fullStr | Ugliness in architecture in the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus: Subtopia between the 1950s and the 1970s |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ugliness in architecture in the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus: Subtopia between the 1950s and the 1970s |
| title_short | Ugliness in architecture in the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus: Subtopia between the 1950s and the 1970s |
| title_sort | ugliness in architecture in the australian american british and italian milieus subtopia between the 1950s and the 1970s |
| topic | Subtopia Featurism Austerica Arboraphobia Outrage ugliness |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40410-022-00152-7 |
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